[yshavurah] Fwd: Fw: The Zoo
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From: "ESTELLE S WINICKI" <estellew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Fw: The Zoo
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In a message dated 12/3/02 6:53:06 AM, estellew@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< The Zoo attachments didnot come through. Any other way of sending it?
estelle >>
there was no attatchemet when i sent it......
Dov is an actor -- or, at least, he would be if he could find a job.
> He is down and out, and ready to settle for anything, any opportunity.
> Finally he gets a lead. He discovers a job described in the classified ads
as
> follows: "Actor needed to play ape."
> "I could do that," says Dov. To his surprise, the employer turns out to
be
> none other than the recruitment director for the local zoo. The director
> confesses that owing to past mismanagement, the zoo has spent so much
money
> renovating the grounds and improving the habitat that they can no longer
> afford to import the ape they needed to replace Betsy, their previous ape,
> who is now in ape-Heaven. He offers Dov the job of playing a real, live
ape.
> Out of desperation, Dov accepts the offer. At first, Dov feels weird in
his
> new job. His conscience keeps nagging at him, telling him that he is being
> dishonest by fooling the zoo-goers. And as you might expect, he feels
rather
> undignified in the ape suit, stared at by crowds of observers who watch
his
> every move from the other side of the cage.
But after a couple of days on the job, he actually begins to be amused by
all the attention. He even starts
> to put on a bit of a show for the customers: hanging upside-down from the
> branches by his legs, swinging about on the looming vines, climbing up the
> cage walls, and roaring with all his might whilst beating his chest.
Indeed,
> he begins to become quite a popular attraction at the zoo, drawing a
sizable
> crowd. One day, when showing off to a group of kids on a school trip, Dov
> starts swinging about on the vines with the greatest agility, when all of
a
> sudden his hand slips, and he goes flying over the fence into the
neighboring
> cage, the lion's den! Recovering from the fall, Dov lifts up his head to
see
> the lion approaching! Terrified, Dov retreats as far as he can, covers his
> eyes with his paws, and screams at the top of his lungs,
>
> "Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad!"
>
> The lion opens its powerful jaws and roars, "Baruch shem k'vod malchuto
> l'olam va'ed!"
>
> "Zol Zein Sha (shut up)!" the panda bear hisses from a third cage.
> "You fools! You'll get us *all* fired!"
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